Quiz 16

The Cranial Gluteal Artery forms collateral circulation with what other lateral branch off the Internal Iliac Artery?

Caudal Gluteal Artery

The _______ is smaller in length and diameter than the Celiac Trunk or Cranial Mesenteric Artery.

Caudal Mesenteric Artery

What is the 3rd ventral branch off the Abdominal Aorta?

Caudal Mesenteric Artery

What artery is found where the caudal end of the pancrease and the duodenum run together?

Caudal Pancreaticoduodenal Artery

What is the 2nd branch off the Cranial Mesenteric Artery in the cat?

Caudal Pancreaticoduodenal Artery

What arteries arise off the Abdominal Aorta and serve the diaphragm?

Caudal Phrenic or Inferior Phrenic Arteries

The first ventral branch off the abdominal aorta is?

Celiac Trunk

The three major ventral branches off the Aorta are?

Celiac Trunk, Cranial Mesenteric A., and Caudal Mesenteric A.

What is the short artery that between the Left and Right External Iliac Arteries that branches into the Left and Right Internal Iliac Arteries?

Common Iliac Artery

What is the 1st lateral branch off the Internal Iliac Artery?

Cranial Gluteal Artery

What is the second ventral branch off the Aorta?

Cranial Mesenteric Artery

What artery branches off the Gastroduodenal Artery and forms an anastomoses with the Caudal Pancreaticoduodenal Artery?

Cranial Pancreaticodudoenal Artery

What artery is found where the cranial end of the pancreas and the duodenum run together?

Cranial Pancreaticoduodenal Artery

What arteries arise off the Thoracic Aorta and serve the diaphragm?

Cranial Phrenic or Superior Phrenic Arteries

What branches off the Caudal Mesenteric Artery and passes along the rectum of cat to form collateral circulation with other vessels in the pelvic region?

Cranial Rectal Artery

What two arteries does the Splenic Artery bifurcate into?

Cranial and Caudal Splenic Arteries

What branches off the Hepatic Artery and serves the Gall Bladder?

Cystic Artery

What are the two branches off the Hepatic Artery?

Cystic Artery and Gastroduodenal Artery

What artery branches off the Common Iliac Artery, deep to the Left and Right Internal Iliac Arteries, towards the dorsal side of the cat?

Median Sacral Artery

What artery serves the middle of the colon?

Middle Colic Artery

What is the first branch off the Cranial Mesenteric Artery?

Middle Colic Artery

What are the four branches of the Cranial Mesenteric Artery?

Middle Colic Artery, Caudal Pancreaticoduodenal Artery, Ileocolic Artery, Intestinal Artery

The five major lateral branches off the Aorta in the cat are?

L and R Adrenolumbar Arteries, L and R Renal Arteries, L and R Gonadal Arteries (Internal Spermatic or Ovarian), L and R Deep Iliac Circumflex Arteries, L and R External Iliac Arteries

The Middle Colic Artery forms an anastomoses with?

L. Colic Artery

What branches off the Caudal Mesenteric Artery and forms an anastomoses with the Middle Colic Artery?

L. Colic Artery

What two arteries branch from the Caudal Mesenteric Artery?

L. Colic Artery and Cranial Rectal Artery

The Right Gastric Artery forms an anastomoses with what vessel?

L. Gastric Artery

What artery joins the lesser curvature of the stomach on the left side?

L. Gastric Artery

What is the 2nd branch off the Celiac Trunk?

L. Gastric Artery

In the human the Aorta ends inferiorly level with L4 body where what vessels begin?

Left and Right Common Iliac Arteries

The Aorta terminates in the cat at the start of what vessel (s)?

Left and Right External Iliac Arteries

What arteries branch laterally left and right off the Common Iliac Artery?

Left and Right Internal Iliac Arteries

There are four pairs of arteries that branch off the Descending Aorta in different places and serve the abdominal wall and branches of the spinal cord. What are they called?

Lumbar Arteries

What are the Gonadal Arteries in a female called?

Ovarian Arteries

The Ovarian Arteries serve the?

Ovaries

What are the terminal branches of the Cranial Mesenteric Artery?

Intestinal Arteries

In humans, the Aorta bifurcates into the left and right common iliac arteries. Each of which then bifurcates into?

An Internal Iliac Artery and an External Iliac Artery.

What occurs when arterioles meet head to head and provide for collateral circulation?

Anastomoses

What arteries form an anastomoses with the Adrenolumbar Arteries?

Deep Circumflex Iliac Arteries

What Arteries do the Adrenolumbar Arteries form anastomoses with?

Deep Iliac Circumflex Arteries

What branches off the Hepatic Artery and serves the stomach, duodenum, greater omentum and pancreas?

Gastroduodenal Artery

What are the 3rd lateral branches off the Aorta?

Gonadal Arteries, either Ovarian or Internal Spermatic

What is the 1st branch off the Celiac Trunk that leads towards the Liver?

Hepatic Artery

What are the three branches of the Celiac Trunk?

Hepatic Artery, L. Gastric Artery, and the Splenic Artery

What is the only vessel that receives blood from the ENTIRE Gastrointestinal system?

Hepatic Portal Vein

What vessel brings blood to the liver so it can be processed and altered for distribution to the rest of the body?

Hepatic Portal Vein

What vessel is yellow in cats due to dye?

Hepatic Portal Vein

What artery serves the Ileocolic Junction?

Ileocolic Artery

What is the 3rd branch off the Cranial Mesenteric Artery?

Ileocolic Artery

What artery supplies blood to the inferior half of the anal canal, perineum, penis in the male, and labia and clitoris in the female?

Internal Pudendal Artery

What is the 2nd medial and terminal branch off the Internal Iliac Artery?

Internal Pudendal Artery

What are the Gonadal Arteries in a male called?

Internal Spermatic Arteries

What artery joins the lesser curvature of the stomach on right side?

R. Gastric Artery

What is the 1st branch off the Gastroduodenal Artery in the cat?

R. Gastric Artery

What are the three branches off the Gastroduodenal Artery?

R. Gastric Artery, R. Gastroepiploic Artery, and the Cranial Pancreaticoduodenal Artery

What artery serves the greater curvature of the stomach and the greater omentum?

R. Gastroepiploic Artery

What vessel branches off the Gastroduodenal Artery and forms an anastomoses with the L. Gastroepiploic Artery?

R. Gastroepiploic Artery

What are the first lateral branches of the Aorta?

Right and Left Adrenolumbar Arteries

What are the 4th lateral branches off the Aorta?

Right and Left Deep Circumflex Iliac Arteries

What are the last lateral branches off the Aorta?

Right and Left External Iliac Arteries

What are the second lateral branches off the Aorta that serve the Kidneys?

Right and Left Renal Arteries

What artery is a terminal branch off the Celiac Trunk?

Splenic Artery

What is the largest branch off the Celiac Trunk in humans? It serves the spleen, pancreas, greater omentum, and stomach.

Splenic Artery

Why do the Internal Spermatic Arteries branch off Aorta so superiorly if the testes are so inferior?

Testicles began development in the abdomen before descending to the scrotum. This is why the Internal Spermatic Arteries branch so cranially off the Aorta.

The Splenic Artery serves what organ?

The Spleen

What is the 1st medial branch off the Internal Iliac Artery that serves the urinary bladder? In the fetus it carried blood to the placenta.

Umbilical Artery

Each Internal Iliac Artery has four branches, what are they?

Umbilical Artery (medial), Cranial Gluteal Artery (lateral), Caudal Gluteal Artery (lateral), Internal Pudendal Artery (medial)